Given all I canFor the last timeFind an easier branchTo hang your heart aroundWhat are you standing thereWaiting for?Given all your life plansYou should feel assured

In the balmy airEveryone's aroundEvery young one that you'veWrapped your arms aroundIn the fog on a ferryNight ride to flee your shoreI wished not to you have known

Didn't it fail at the start line?Don't we happen of the same kind?Build your home on another fault lineAnd deal with your ashes thereAnd I'll here deal with mine

Only Now

Friend of mineWhere's your heart reside?You were one day hereThe next day goneDisappointing nightsOf coming under your fireI bid you my farewell

Brother, hold your heart in tightIt is one day hereThe next day goneYou can toil all your lifeIn the winning of fightsI know the fault too well

Mother, is this how we lie?Alone in our frozen bedsI am only nowAnd a long way outDon't you feel it now more than ever?

And what then?For all that changes, nothingIn the stick of kinIn the blowing of the windAre last living feelingsOn account of what's to feel

You Always Keep Around

All the lightIt seems to please youTrailing mindless Rows of commoners on their kneesTo praise your weaknessAnd your mind without a holdOnly feelings of a while passedAnd falling in arms to keep you aliveAll the lions on your leashAll their stains on your night dressIn your endless summer on the beachYou're a foal in a fortressBut there are maps to the roadsPlenty are your ways to get homeIf the fog don't keep you out

And you, you always keep aroundYou always keep aroundChrist how you keep me down

The years have piled onWhat feeling there was leftWith all your running awayMy faith has lost it's healthBut in your time you'll knowWho fell awayThe account recalled the other wayThe fall of nightYou left me there to stray

And still the loomOf morning light leaves me blindThis falling out's reached it's timeMaybe I won't need you aroundMaybe I don't need you nowTo hold or to keep you fed

Winter Ghosts

By the window up in the bedroomI can hear the storm comeFrom many roads awayAnd it brings the nightIf the ones who died sit around meI hope they're going to stayAnd that maybe you'll arriveIn the rain that's rolling inThese summer nightsI feel you on my skin

Winter came as a loadFrozen down to the boneI lived here half asleepWalking nights to the roadEmpty, drunk and aloneIn hopes you'd come to meBefore the morningBefore you're runningBut why are you running?Where are you running?Home?

Once I knew youLay my head upon your lapOnce I knew youIn your eyes a calming lightOnce I knew youAnd your hand upon my backOnce I knew youIn a life ain't coming back

Forests

Beast of the forestCoward hid under the treesFate has it comingFor strangers so careless to beIn the palms of a famineAnd imploding in sparksIn every failing a rightTo cower in nightsAnd drown in them under relief

For all that it pains youYou sure count me out

Moving past the ballroomA sea of lights I turned aroundFrom the past ones I knewTheir faces blurring outAnother while againTo wait in thereFor arrivals haven't even leftFor the fall out with the strainHere they laugh when you lay to dieYou gave your whole life to fill a roomYou gave your heart and fireAnd what's become of you?

Years crawling by, straining byYour youth,This aged heart of mineStill in line for you

Thames

Annie, you're drowning in your needsYoung flower in the reedsKiss everyone you meetIn that face there you foundIt sure changed you around

And I've grown into a manWho grew out of his feelingsTry to keep it in the darkThat we're living without meaningDidn't I try like a foolThere ain't no counting on you

You've come a long way not to feelWe've come a long way, not for real

Moonwatcher

The wind blew downThrough the cracks of the homeAnd the frozen sides of it creakedOne day I'd of liked to see you comeStay the night and fill me warmWith your sunlightI just don't feel right

You sift through the trashThey've thrown in your lapYou're sailing past your feelingsBut you can't ignore 'emThey'll again come aroundI can see you drowningIn your orders assignedIn the falling in lineI wish for you not a window to crackBut for all of the sun and groundFor your feeling well

Stay your leaveThe way you've turned isn't realBut I see it in your eyesWhen you're calmThere's a leap in youFace the blastFor all that you've beenWhat do you stand to keepFrom running out the field?There's only one way outThey'll wonder how it feelsWhen you wander out

Crooked Branches

In the afternoon of a summer dayI saw you walking in the lakeYellow dress soaked up to your waistInto the sun he led you by the handSmoothing for you out the sandNearly dying from the love he feltBut he smiled to be aliveAnd to know you're nearly dyingFrom it too

In your life gone ablazeHe held you high out of the flamesHeaven knows you've seenThe worst of thingsBut in his eyes the calm awakesIn you the child who lost it's wayTo sail you from yourGrowing up sea of painAnd I swear it when you smileThat you still look like a child to me

No matter if the rain falls on you

On Fire On A Tightrope

If you find your wayAnd get on your feetOne sunny day come walk with meIn lonely daysOn fire on a tightropeIn dead ends I found a home

One new day off a crowded streetAbove the rain began to freezeAnd I watched your faceAlive in the first snowIn your eyes the light of home

In the morning tideIn a role that I had filed long awayI resolved in the deepsIn the hope to find a wayDid I become inane

Keeping Up

Stick around pleaseWait out through the fallI'm not right in the howling windAn end tide around meHas stayed inThe dream has not paidI fall out of it falling weightThe faded ideals are gatheringIn a walkabout taleIn a digging into dirtI failed and returnedFlying through a fogPeering through the cracksFor the moonOr the fire of the sunIn reaching I've become a figurine

A calm around meStray ashes that fallIn low light through the backwoodsAnd fatal ideas that gatherIn the corners while I waitFor the limited return of feelingIt ain't worth the hold out for itOnce you feel like you've become unrealAnd collide which is whatI've strayed out through the fogBut I can't feel the sun or the windSo come out with it onceIn a straight actionCrawl through my windowWith your heart tied to a stickCome out with it onceI'm afraid I can't afford to wait